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Antiquerose: I have seen this iridescence, I think it is called, before on a red/gold vase by Seguso Vetri de Arts that a friend of mine owns. Yours is an absolutely stunning colour and appears to be very well made.

Hope you get to ID it as it looks like a piece by a master. If I had to guess I would say Barbini but my thoughts are often off with the pixies.

Hi David I was looking at some pieces in the USA and there was a duck that appeared somewhat similar in execution but the head was not joined like this one and the colour was different. Apart from this they were identical. :X:

Saw this in the completed ebay section 270615916816 although this is Green it seems to be in a similar vein to yours.

regards

Similar vein yes but on the linked-to bird the base is different, the work on the head seems different, the beak and tail are amber. I think the one in the link reminds me of Seguso although not attributed there.

I don't know that I see iridescence on Rose's piece either. At first I thought I was seeing something like the color shimmer of dichrioc glass which would be more recent work bit it's probably some metalic gold in the red glass. Would be cool to see a good close up of that layer.

For what it's worth I'm a good bit color deficient too but only certain colors cause problems, for example I have a devil of a time trying to find a day-glo orange golf ball on a green fairway.

Hi there:I will take a close up as soon as possible of the shimmering red inside.

In the meantime, I ran across this link HERE. Now I am only referring to this link due to the swirled and twisted base on the one there. It looks much the same as mine. Not saying that is the maker, as I guess (as stated here) that piece was made in 3 pieces.....so it is possible that *another* glass maker made the base, while the other was working on the other section maybe.

Anyways, I thought I would add this here -- merely for my Swan twisted/swirled base as to the one in the link....Hope that is OK. Will get a close up of the shimmering red later to post...